Tag: training

• Pilatus PC-21 – Part Five – RAAF Roulette

  

  The Pilatus PC-21 were ready to fly – the next batch of pilot trainees due to make their solos. One of them was the son of my niece. I have a short reel of him flying that first solo taken by a squadron mate. It is detailed enough to make out the number of the…

  Dick Stein

  July 18, 2026

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, Collecting, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, prototypes, Scale Models

  Pilatus, RAAF, training

• The Royal Ruritanian Army Air Force – Part Four – The Royal Trainees

  

  Every Ruritanian boy has a burning desire to fly – frequently far from home and the endless cultivation of vegetables in the cold, damp soil. In the centuries before flight this urge was satisfied by sneaking over the border into Austria, Hungary, Poland, Russia, or Germany. There, the life choices of the Ruritanian peasant could…

  Dick Stein

  June 2, 2019

  Czech models, Model Airplane, research, Ruritanian Aircraft, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Canada, Hentzau Field, RRAAF, training